A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. Ray Stannard Baker Read Quote
In the beginning I thought, and still think, he did great good in giving support and encouragement to this movement. But I did not believe then, and have never believed since, that these ills can be settled by partisan political methods. They are moral and economic questions. Ray Stannard Baker Read Quote
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape. Ray Stannard Baker Read Quote
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor – all conductors are white – ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. Ray Stannard Baker Read Quote
One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains. Ray Stannard Baker Read Quote
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. Ray Stannard Baker Read Quote
It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike. Ray Stannard Baker Read Quote
At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence. Ray Stannard Baker Read Quote
Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread – there may be. Ray Stannard Baker Read Quote
Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored. Ray Stannard Baker Read Quote
